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APPLICATION FIL`ED MAY 20, ISIS;

' Patented Sept. 17, 1918.

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CHARLES B. LELAND, 0F CLIFTON SPRINGS, NEW YORK.

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Specication of Letters Patent.

Patenten sept. rz, 191s.

Application led May 20, 1918. l Serial No. 235,634.

To all lwhom t may conce/m:

Be it known that I, CHARLES B. LELAND, a citizen of the United States, and resident, of Clifton Springs, in the county of Ontario and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sprayers, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to sprayers and more particularly to the type in which an air pump Ais provided for drawing a liquid from a suitable receptacle by means of a tube having one end yin the receptacle and the other end in proximity to the discharge of the pump; an object of this invention being to provide al construction which will enable the receptacle to be used as a container for the liquid .when the latter is sold in the first instance, the tube being detachably connected to the sprayer so that it will not become injured when the air pump is detached from the receptacle, and et being so mounted that it willbe firmly he d in operative position.v

To these and other ends the invention consists of certain parts and combinations of parts all of which will be hereinafter de-- scribed, the novel features being pointed out in the appended claims. l

In the drawings Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through a pump, constructed in accordance with'this invention, parts being shown in elevation;

Fig. 2 is an end view of the sprayer with the receptacle removed; and

Figs. 3 and 4 are detail side and end views, respectively, of the conductor tube.

. It has been suggested heretofore to utilize the receptacle of a sprayer pump for a container for a liquid when the latter is sold in the first instance, the pump with a cap and conductor tube attached thereto being` disconnected from the receptacle. With this arrangement the conductor tube which has projections from the cap becomesl injured or broken, thus rendering the sprayer useless or not very eiective. To overcome these disadvantages the present invention makes the conductor tube removable from thecap and the air ump, and at the same time makes it posslble to support the tube firmly in operative position when the sprayer is to be used.

An embodiment of the invention for securing these results is shown in the drawings, where 1 indicates the cylinder of the sprayer pump and V2 the piston whoserod 3 extends to the exterior of the cylinder and has a handle 4. The cylinder has an opening 5 at one end and on this end a cap or closure 6 is rigidly' secured Afor the receptacle 7. The latter is utilized in'the first instance as a container for a liquidsuch as an insecticide, being provided with a separate closure which, when removed, permits the screw-threaded mouth 8 of the receptacle to be secured to the screw cap 6.

The screw cap 6 has an opening 9 preferably eccentrically arranged therethrough and through this opening a tube 10 loosely extends, one end of the tube lying in proximity to the opening 5 in the pump cylinder,

and the other end lying within the receptacle 7. That portion of 'the tube which projects above the screw cap rests loosely in a radial seat 12 which is formed by pressing two parallel ribs from the head of the air pump.

To hold this tube in operative position the tube carries a means preferably in the orm of a disk 11 which is adapted toit within the screw cap and to' be engaged by the mouth 8 of the receptacle so as to be clamped between the cap and the receptacle'. In this way not only is the outer end of the tube held in proper position with reference tothe discharge opening of the air pump,

butthe inner'end ofthe tube is held spaced from the bottom of the receptacle. At the same time the tube may be readily disconnected from the pump so that it may -be packed or stored without injury.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent-is 1. A sprayer comprising an air pump provided with a suitable discharge, a cap secured to said pump for attachment to aV suitable container, a tube removably arranged on said cap with one end adjacent the discharge, and means carried by the tube, lying within the cap for engagement by a receptacle secured to the cap to hold the tube in proper position within the cap.y

2. A sprayer comprising an air pump provided with a suitable discharge, a cap secured to said pump for attachment to a suitable container, a tube removably arranged on said ca with one end adjacent the pump, and a dis secured to said tube and' lying within the .cap to be engaged by the receptacle to hold the tube in proper osition.

CHARLES B. ELAND. 

